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> You missed Jeremy's point. (Yes, he was being extreme - but no more so than
> any number of people that post regularly, and far less than some)
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> UCE is wrong & bad, and all that stuff. People are welcome to make an honest
> living - they aren't welcome to do so with my dime or my time unless they ask
> first. Period.
>
> Maybe you don't care about being used that way, but some of us do. Jeremy's
> just more vocal than some - that doesn't make him wrong.
Thus you have the means to prevent them and block addresses. MY point was that
with the tiniest, tiniest bit of effort, the inconvenience is gone. It would
have taken him far less time to block the address than rant on LUGNET. I can
already see your next argument, that it shouldn't have come to his inbox in the
first place. I think that by doing business with this seller before, he should
expect a tiny bit of return business. If the seller was sending weekly, or
even monthly emails, that is a different story. But it was a one time thing,
correct?
If he was really bothered by it, just block/ignore the address sending it. You
want an example of annoying solicitations? Try selling something on Ebay. I
got at least 50 emails telling me to "Accept credit cards as payment methods!".
My beef is that it annoys me to see someone spend so much time and effort
whining and bemoaning the tiny problem and trying to give the seller a bad
reputation rather than taking the small amount of effort to correct it (i.e.,
block the address or reply asking him to stop solicitations). As a
counter-point to my own arguement, I could be building instead of writing this.
:)
Of course, that's my opinion. I may be wrong.
Jason
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| (...) Fixing symptoms does not fix problems. (...) Yup, you're right. It's much easier to just ignore/delete/block spam than it is to try and do something to correct it. So? If my neighbor's fence breaks, putting the cow back in his yard won't help, (...) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) <snippage> You missed Jeremy's point. (Yes, he was being extreme - but no more so than any number of people that post regularly, and far less than some) UCE is wrong & bad, and all that stuff. People are welcome to make an honest living - they (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction)
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